Technically, because the light of the flash occurs too fast for the pupil to close, much of the very bright light from the flash passes into the eye through the pupil, reflects off the fundus at the back of the eyeball and out through the pupil. The camera records this reflected light. The main cause of the red color is the ample amount of blood in the choroid which nourishes the back of the eye and is located behind the retina. The blood in the retinal circulation is far less than in the choroid, and plays virtually no role. The eye contains several photostable pigments that all absorb in the short wavelength region, and hence contribute somewhat to the red eye effect.

Another Dog Pic -- the one I tried to fwd to Select Folk yesterday & was told nothing was there.

Marci Swann, wife of barbershopper Gregg(they live in WV) who's back on the Events Team as Plumbicon is, sent me this on July 2. They care for a dog whose name & breed I forget.

spinach gunk, tnx for bringing Sarah back to mind. Think you said she was such a good girl.Also tnx yobbery for fresh Biscuit & others pix, also to remember lurvly Alice. Is that Biscuit in the .gif shaking himself enthusiastically? Sure looks like it could be --

I'm so jealous of you guize with the photophiliac kittehs. GoGo Beastie RUNS and would put a hole in a door to get away if she had to when she just sees my camera. Not that I've figured out how to use the obviously-smarter-than-me thing, or I'd have pictures of our skwerls and tons of food porn. *sigh* Some things I'm good at, a lot of things I'm not so good at, and that camera falls in the "not so good at" category.

lilyspad:[i.imgur.com image 640x478]Hai! Broke out of work early...it's even too hot for customers, apparently! So, you guize are stuck with me for some extra time today! I can smell your joy. Or maybe, that's just QJ's hushpuppies!!! :D

He's got back up now in the form of his MOM! However, I am proud of him for being so generous with the sharing of the hushpuppies.

Fourth time I've tried to post before system locks up from all the damn local trash playing yahoo games online!

Anywhooos, Happy Caturday! Sorry I'm late, spent the weekend at my place with whiskey between two AC units. Or was that with AC between two whiskey units? Kind of hazy at this point...

ALIEN! Good to see you still posting. Please don't give up, just keep on rolling and keep us appraised of your situation. My offer of paypal is still out there, let me have a contact email so I can send a little. I'm not pushing charity, I just feel like crap that you are in such horrible dire straits and I'm unable to help you!!

quantum_jellyroll:The problem with getting pictures is that I keep the camera stashed away due to the questionable neighborhood.My camera bag with camera, lenses, flash meter, etc is valued at nearly $30K to replace.This is *not* the neighborhood to be flashing that kind of bling if you want to keep it.

lilyspad:akimbotoo: lilyspad: [i.imgur.com image 640x415]Okay, I am OFFICIALLY done with this heat! Holy cow! It's 98 right now...again. Supposed to be in the upper 90's for another week. I'm gonna snap, I tell ya!!!! If you guize read about some crazy middle-aged woman running naked through the neighbors sprinklers while drinking beer, start collecting bail money! :D

I'll bring a camera too! :D

Or video..... :D You're twisted, I like that!!! Hahaha!!!

You have that right! I would probably bring the Flip too so we could have Youtube-ready videos! We had old friends visit us earlier this week and I think I shocked him a little with my sense of humor. I told them the story about when I had the metal plate & screws removed from my ankle after my fracture adventure. I was disappointed that the surgeon wouldn't let me watch the operation. I had a spinal anesthetic instead of the general anesthetic and got a bit bored after a while because I couldn't tell how many screws were still left to be removed. It seemed like it was taking forever! I asked him to make them "plink" in the bowl like in the cowboy movies so I could tell how far along he was. Everyone laughed, but he did it for me!

tigerose:yobbery: tigerose: OlderGuy: tigerose: Hello! I could not find Eli for a while today. And no one remembered if he was in or out. Turns out he was in the attic! Good thing today was not so hot as it haz been! Geez I think that cat needs a locator app

Microchip with GPS :o)

Hmmmm! I am thinking of hazing him chipped. The local petsupply place does them for 10 bucks?

Worth every penny in case he gets lost or picked up. Do they have a veterinary clinic there?

Won't help much for attic trappings though. You may want to get him an iPhone if he keeps insisting on going up there.

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if I have to get the data plan, he will have to settle for Meowers Code...

tigerose:OlderGuy: tigerose: Hello! I could not find Eli for a while today. And no one remembered if he was in or out. Turns out he was in the attic! Good thing today was not so hot as it haz been! Geez I think that cat needs a locator app

Microchip with GPS :o)

Hmmmm! I am thinking of hazing him chipped. The local petsupply place does them for 10 bucks?

Worth every penny in case he gets lost or picked up. Do they have a veterinary clinic there?

Won't help much for attic trappings though. You may want to get him an iPhone if he keeps insisting on going up there.

*waves* Hai! Busy over here, too. Trying to do a Super Secret Lair of Infinite Doom project (rearranging my room), cleaning Grandma's room out at least part way so Mom doesn't have to dig through the medical stuff, just the happy memories and also building a couple sets of shelves and rearranging the garage - all while my Mom is on vacation. So, she should have the best vacation and return from vacation EVER, all things considered.

Hello, everybody. been a busy summer around the infinity household. i've been behind on every one of my leisurely pursuits, including caturdays. However, I feel I would be terribly remiss if I didn't make a small announcement while the thread was still open.

We have been looking for some furkids to adopt for about a month now. We wanted to get 2, so they could keep each other company. Without trying to be too picky about breed, color, etc. The important part was personality and sociability with other animals. We also wanted fairly close to same age or litter mates if possible. Our source is the local humane society. We made a few visits and fell for a pair of kittens, a brother and sister, only to find they had just been taken that day. But there were more kittens at a local pet store in an adoption partnership with the humane society being the beneficiary. There were 2 tabbies and 2 all black kitties, the one girl kitty was one of the all black ones. She was also the shyest and most timid of the bunch. We wanted to take her and one of her tabby brothers, but the policy was cash only and we didn't have it on us at the time. When we called the next day, the tabby we wanted had been adopted. I didn't want to leave the all black brother by himself, because sadly, the black kitties just don't get taken home as readily. So we took both of the black kitties, which actually thrilled me to no end, because I love black kitties.

They've been in our house all of 22 hours so far. I'm about to go into a diabetic coma. I'm so glad we took one of her brothers, because the little girl would be so lost by herself. As it is now, she's coming out of her shell more and more. They were both sleeping under the coffee table, out in the open and not hiding under the bed. This is a great sign.

They are 13 weeks old, already spayed and neutered, microchipped. They look to be in very good health, they had just arrived from the foster home an hour before we saw them in the store for the first time. It is so nice of them to let us stay in their new house, we are very appreciative. We feed them, give them water and toys, and clean their litter box in exchange for the privilege of living with them.

I hope to have some pictures soon. They don't sit still terribly long when they're awake, and when they sleep snuggled up, it is hard to see them and tell them apart. I know this already, he's going to be a catnip fiend. He can smell the sites where we used to have catnip scented pads for their predecessor and throws himself down in a frenzy of rolling and scratching. I need to go shopping, we need more toys, beds, scratching things, whatever our exalted rulers desire. It is going to be mild exhausting to say the least, trying to keep up with them, but so utterly worth it.

Their names are still in the process of being finalized. I had two picked out but the boy got an excellent suggestion from my mom that I'm all but convinced will be his new name. I'm a firm believer in the two syllable, vowel sound sound on the second beat for a cat name.

To say that I am stoked is a minor understatement. Our house has been so empty since Binx (she was 12 when she came to us with that name, we weren't about to change it) has been gone. I've been dreaming about cats. I've been reading caturday with eyes welling with tears, but then I usually do when I read the sadness that is inevitable. For once, I am glad to share some happiness.

More to come, don't touch that dial. Really, this is the digital age. Who knows what that thing is actually controlling, so don't touch it, m'kay?

John Buck 41:Jazzy, never far away from either of us. Here making sure Mrs. Bucks chair doesn't blow off the dock.[farm4.staticflickr.com image 500x375]She didn't want to wait on shore while Mom was out in the kayak.[farm8.staticflickr.com image 500x375]

Fiona will not leave my side if it is raining. So much so that she followed me into the shower. I don't get dog logic. My daughter came out to visit and laughed so hard at this.

tigerose:Good Meowning! Wow! I slept like a cat last night! Eli was out on the front porch when I got up this morning. Now he is on the hassock, curled by my toes. So nice to start my day this way!

You guys were busy last night! And funny as well. I nearly spilled my coffee...horrors! :)

Not the coffee!!!

My mom is getting ready for her vacation and will be leaving for the airport in a few hours, so I'll be in and outta here for a while. Gotta go to the store for a buncha dollahs and then find the phone number for the male strippers.

AlienDandelion:Real Women Drink Akvavit: catmandu: in2it: In my last post with Cat Women and Batman, look at all the famous cats :)

When I first looked it was a cute cartoon, then Simon's Cat caught my eye and I took a closer look. I identified most of the cats.

I zeroed in on Bill the Cat right away. Bloom County was my favorite comic strip in like forever. I even still have my Bill the Cat plushie. Now that Bloom County is gone, I like Get Fuzzy, of course. Bucky is my cartoon kitteh fave with the crazy and the crafty and the thinly veiled (if veiled at all) insults.

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I agree. Bucky is one of my favorites too :)As well as the man behind http://theoatmeal.com/oh and cyanide and happiness because they have a twisted sense of humour like me muwahhh ahhhha

I been meaning to pick up The Oatmeal's book about how to tell if your cat is trying to kill you, but I can't do that until I either (1) get a new bookshelf as I've no room for all the books I have now or (2) get rid of some books. I'll never do (2) so I'm going to rearrange furniture this week so I can do (1) next month.

Also:

Cracked me up. Also, emailed it to my mother (who yes, was in the next room, but emailing is still easier)

lilyspad:Lots of really great posts today! Took me a bit to catch up. Hey QJ! When do we get to see pics of Oscar?? I think I read somewhere along the line that you have a camera with lots of megapickles??? *hint* :D

Some things you just can't explain, and wouldn't want to even if you could.

QJ made this adorable LOL of my favourite picture of Sarah a long time ago:

I keep one copy of this lol in my lolcats folder on my computer. It is the source folder for my computer's screen saver. The screen saver randomly chooses a few dozen lols at a time to cycle through, out of nearly 3000 in the whole folder.

Somehow, this one shows up in the rotation almost every single time!

It's as if she's out there somewhere, making sure we see it a lot since she knows we like it so much. It always makes us smile.

I know it's weird, but I thought you guys would get a kick out of it. :)